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Installing Songbird Media Player On Ubuntu 8.04
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, ubuntu • Comments: 2Installing Songbird Media Player On Ubuntu 8.04 This document describes how to set up Songbird 0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04. Taken from the Songbird page: "Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet."
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How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: apache, debian • Comments: 9How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Debian Etch This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Debian Etch server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.
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How To Fix The Sound Issues Between Skype 2.0 And Pulseaudio On Fedora 9
Author: o.meyer • Tags: desktop, fedora • Comments: 6How To Fix The Sound Issues Between Skype 2.0 And Pulseaudio On Fedora 9 The main problem with Pulseaudio and Skype on Fedora 9 (maybe also on other distributions) is stuttering, crackling sound. This document describes how to fix the sound issues between Skype 2.0 and Pulseaudio on Fedora 9.
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Back Up Your Files With Areca On Fedora 9
Author: o.meyer • Tags: backup, desktop, fedora • Comments: 0Back Up Your Files With Areca On Fedora 9 Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It allows you to select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and store them on your backup location. Areca supports incremental backups and generates backup reports, which can be stored on your disk or sent by email. This guide explains how to install and use it on a Fedora 9 desktop (GNOME).
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Some Tips To Make SSH/SCP Usage More Convenient
Author: tony2 • Tags: linux, other • Comments: 9Some Tips To Make SSH/SCP Usage More Convenient I guess many of us rely heavily on ssh/scp to access/maintain remote hosts. In this short article I would like to share some experiences I find useful for ssh/scp usage.
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How To Build RPM Packages In A Chroot Environment Using mach
Author: candlerb • Tags: fedora, suse, centos • Comments: 1How To Build RPM Packages In A Chroot Environment Using mach OK, so you want to build a binary RPM package for deployment on your servers. You have a .spec file or .src.rpm that you got from one of the many repositories such as freshrpms.net or dag.wieers.com, or that you wrote yourself.
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Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch
Author: Falko Timme • Tags: dns, debian • Comments: 3Installing And Using The Unbound Name Server On Debian Etch Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver, released under a BSD license. Version 1.0.0 was released on May 20, 2008. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on Debian Etch, including the creation of zones for your own domains.
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Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) - Technical Paper
Author: kumrv • Tags: linux • Comments: 0Redundant Array Of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) - Technical Paper The storage capacity and data retrieval speeds of Hard Disks have increased multiple folds in last few years. However for large business organizations, which not only need to store terabytes of invaluable data but access them frequently as well. These organizations cannot afford to let their systems go offline even for a short duration of time. Moreover they cannot even think of loosing even small amount of data due to disk failure or for that matter any other reason.
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Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager)
Author: o.meyer • Tags: php, debian, fedora, ubuntu, centos • Comments: 1Setting Up PHPlist (Open-Source Newsletter Manager) This document describes how to set up PHPlist on Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu and Debian. This howto should also work for other distributions with little modifications. Taken from the phplist page: "phplist is an open-source newsletter manager. phplist is free to download, install and use, and is easy to integrate with any website. phplist is downloaded more than 10 000 times per month and is listed in the top open source projects for vitality score on Freshmeat."
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How To Install A TeamSpeak Server On Ubuntu
Author: Junke1990 • Tags: ubuntu • Comments: 11How To Install A TeamSpeak Server On Ubuntu This tutorial describes how to set up a TeamSpeak server on an Ubuntu Server system. Teamspeak has the ability to make more than one server by setting different ports for each server. The user that controls all these servers is called the SuperAdmin, he has the ability to make more servers and users with or without their rights.
